Acrylamide cleared of causing breast cancer

Acrylamide cleared of causing breast cancer

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It was responsible for one of the biggest food scares in recent times. Now acrylamide, which is found in coffee, French fries and many other foods, has been cleared of causing breast cancer.

The alarm was raised in 2002 when researchers discovered that acrylamide, which had been shown to cause cancers in animals, can form in a range of foods while they are being cooked. A team led by Lorelei Mucci at Harvard School of Public Health in Boston has now sounded the all-clear - at least for breast cancer - following a 20-year study of 100,000 nurses in the US.

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Yet another food police scare found to be false.........big wonder.........The food police are small minded idiots who want to control the world. Bravo Harvard for geting this one right!

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